Achlorhydria is the absence or reduced secretion of hydrochloric acid in the stomach which can arise due to several underlying disease conditions, the most serious of which is stomach cancer.

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Achlorhydria with the tubeless gastric-analysis technic has been arbitrarily defined as the absence of free hydrochloric acid after a specific dose of a specific gastric stimulant.

The calcium infusion test and standard meal test are less useful diagnostically. The finding of achlorhydria or profound hypochlorhydria in association with hypergastrinemia effectively rules out ZES.

IN an effort to avoid the unpleasantness of obtaining gastric contents for analysis, Segal et al.1 devised a practical "tubeless" method employing a cation-exchange resin (Amberlite XE-96) combined ...

Autoimmune gastritis is a chronic progressive inflammatory condition that results in the replacement of the parietal cell mass by atrophic and metaplastic mucosa. This Review summarizes the ...

In an older study, researchers found that the absorption from calcium carbonate was impaired in achlorhydria under fasting conditions, while absorption from calcium citrate in those with ...